Winter Haven, Florida climate: Normal weather by month, frost dates and records
Winter Haven's normal year runs from 52°F January nights to 93°F July afternoons, with 46.1 inches of precipitation a year. (NOAA 1991-2020 normals)
In metric: a yearly mean of 23.7°C, January lows of 11°C, July highs of 34°C, 1,171 mm of precipitation a year.
- NOAA stationWinter Haven Gilbert Airport
- Station IDUSW00012876
- Location28.06°N 81.75°W
- Elevation146 ft (45 m)
- Population59,975
On October 22, the normal high in Winter Haven is 85°F and the normal low 66°F, and the chance of measurable rain or snow is 25%.
Normals describe a typical year at the station, not a forecast. The National Weather Service forecast for Winter Haven.
- Jan 73° 52°
- Feb 76° 55°
- Mar 80° 59°
- Apr 85° 63°
- May 90° 69°
- Jun 92° 74°
- Jul 93° 75°
- Aug 93° 76°
- Sep 91° 74°
- Oct 86° 68°
- Nov 80° 60°
- Dec 74° 55°
Each month: normal high (large) and low, °F. Fill: the month's normal mean, colder blue to hotter red.
What is the weather like in Winter Haven each month?
July is the warmest month, with normal highs of 93°F; January the coldest, with normal lows of 52°F. The most precipitation falls in July (7.44 in), the least in November (1.45 in).
Each month has its own page with the day-by-day normals, the month's records and its recent years:
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Precip. | Wet days | 90°F days | Freezing nights | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 73°F | 52°F | 62.2°F | 2.49 | 9 | <1 | 1 | 10 h 30 min |
| February | 76°F | 55°F | 65.1°F | 2.44 | 8 | <1 | <1 | 11 h 10 min |
| March | 80°F | 59°F | 69.1°F | 3.04 | 8 | 1 | <1 | 12 h |
| April | 85°F | 63°F | 73.8°F | 2.50 | 6 | 4 | <1 | 12 h 50 min |
| May | 90°F | 69°F | 79.3°F | 2.67 | 8 | 16 | <1 | 13 h 30 min |
| June | 92°F | 74°F | 83.0°F | 7.36 | 16 | 22 | <1 | 13 h 50 min |
| July | 93°F | 75°F | 84.1°F | 7.44 | 18 | 26 | <1 | 13 h 50 min |
| August | 93°F | 76°F | 84.1°F | 6.52 | 19 | 26 | <1 | 13 h 10 min |
| September | 91°F | 74°F | 82.5°F | 5.31 | 14 | 20 | <1 | 12 h 20 min |
| October | 86°F | 68°F | 77.1°F | 2.22 | 8 | 7 | <1 | 11 h 30 min |
| November | 80°F | 60°F | 69.8°F | 1.45 | 7 | <1 | <1 | 10 h 50 min |
| December | 74°F | 55°F | 64.6°F | 2.68 | 8 | <1 | <1 | 10 h 20 min |
| Year (annual) | 84°F | 65°F | 74.6°F | 46.12 | 128 | 121 | 1 |
The same normals in °C and millimetres
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Precip. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 23°C | 11°C | 16.8°C | 63 mm |
| February | 24°C | 13°C | 18.4°C | 62 mm |
| March | 27°C | 15°C | 20.6°C | 77 mm |
| April | 29°C | 17°C | 23.2°C | 64 mm |
| May | 32°C | 21°C | 26.3°C | 68 mm |
| June | 33°C | 23°C | 28.3°C | 187 mm |
| July | 34°C | 24°C | 28.9°C | 189 mm |
| August | 34°C | 24°C | 28.9°C | 166 mm |
| September | 33°C | 23°C | 28.1°C | 135 mm |
| October | 30°C | 20°C | 25.1°C | 56 mm |
| November | 26°C | 16°C | 21.0°C | 37 mm |
| December | 24°C | 13°C | 18.1°C | 68 mm |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USW00012876; annual normals. Wet days: 0.01 inch or more; 90°F days and freezing nights: NOAA's day counts. Daylight: sunrise to sunset on the 15th, computed from the latitude.
When is the best weather to visit Winter Haven?
Normal highs sit between 65°F and 85°F in January, February, March, April, November and December. Of those, April has the fewest days with rain (6).
That is a measurement, not a recommendation: it counts the months whose normal afternoon high sits between 65°F and 85°F, where a light layer is enough by day.
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USW00012876.
When is the last frost in Winter Haven?
A night at 32°F or colder comes in only 33% of years in Winter Haven (NOAA). NOAA's median date of the last spring frost is January 15 and of the first autumn frost January 10.
NOAA puts the median frost-free season at 365 days, and the season without a hard freeze (28°F) at 365 days.
The USDA's 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Winter Haven in zone 10a across its 3 ZIP code areas (10a in 33881, the largest). By the map's own method, the average of each year's coldest night over 1991-2020, Winter Haven's NOAA station is in zone 10a: the coldest night of a typical year reaches 32°F (20 complete years).
Frost dates for every NOAA station in Florida · Frost dates by ZIP code
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 annual normals (frost probabilities), station USW00012876; USDA 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map, ZIP listings: PRISM Group, Oregon State University, https://prism.oregonstate.edu, accessed October 8, 2026; the station zone: ACIS daily lows, 1991-2020. A 10% date means one year in ten has a frost after it in spring or before it in autumn.
What hardiness zone is each Winter Haven ZIP code in?
The USDA's 2023 map gives each ZIP code area one zone. Winter Haven's 3 ZIP code areas are all in zone 10a. Each ZIP's frost dates are in the frost tool.
Source: USDA 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map, ZIP listings: PRISM Group, Oregon State University, https://prism.oregonstate.edu, accessed October 8, 2026; ZIP areas in the place: Census Bureau 2020 ZCTA-to-place relationship file. A ZIP area counts when at least a tenth of its land (and 0.5 km²) lies in the place.
How hot and how cold does it get in Winter Haven?
In a normal year in Winter Haven, 121 days a year reach 90°F, 1 night falls to 32°F or colder and 128 days bring measurable precipitation.
- Days at 90°F or more
- 121a normal year
- Days at 100°F or more
- fewer than 1a normal year
- Nights at 32°F or colder
- 1a normal year
- Days that stay below freezing
- fewer than 1high of 32°F or less
- Days with 0.01 inch of precipitation
- 128a normal year
The highest temperature in Winter Haven's official record (kept by the National Weather Service since 1941) is 103°F, on May 31, 1945; the lowest is 19°F, on January 21, 1985.
The wettest calendar year on that record is 1959, with 73.28 in.
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 annual normals, station USW00012876; records: ACIS (NOAA Regional Climate Centers), NWS threaded record GIFthr. Records use complete months only; a month missing more than three days is left out.
How sunny is Winter Haven?
Over a year 79% of the sunlight that would reach the ground under clear skies gets through the clouds in the area around Winter Haven, 4.9 kWh per square metre a day. April is the sunniest month (83%) and June the cloudiest (75%). Among the 459 U.S. places of 50,000 or more, that ranks tied 176th (with 33 others) in sunshine.
| Month | Share of clear-sky sunshine | Sunshine, kWh/m² a day |
|---|---|---|
| January | 79% | 3.5 |
| February | 77% | 4.1 |
| March | 81% | 5.2 |
| April | 83% | 6.1 |
| May | 83% | 6.5 |
| June | 75% | 5.8 |
| July | 76% | 5.7 |
| August | 76% | 5.4 |
| September | 77% | 4.9 |
| October | 81% | 4.4 |
| November | 81% | 3.6 |
| December | 79% | 3.1 |
Source: NASA POWER solar climatology, 2001-2020 (CERES SYN1deg). Satellite-based, for the 1-degree cell (about 100 km across) around the station, so it describes the area rather than the airport.
How much heating and cooling does Winter Haven need?
A normal year in Winter Haven brings 421 heating degree days, 92% fewer than the median U.S. place (5,373), and 3,929 cooling degree days, 4.3 times the median (908). No month reaches 300 heating degree days. For gardens and crops, NOAA counts 9,002 growing degree days a year above 50°F.
| Month | Heating | Cooling |
|---|---|---|
| January | 149 | 62 |
| February | 86 | 89 |
| March | 38 | 165 |
| April | 6 | 272 |
| May | 0 | 445 |
| June | 0 | 540 |
| July | 0 | 594 |
| August | 0 | 594 |
| September | 0 | 523 |
| October | 4 | 378 |
| November | 31 | 174 |
| December | 107 | 95 |
| Year (annual) | 421 | 3,929 |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USW00012876. A degree day is one degree of a day's mean temperature below 65°F (heating) or above it (cooling); utilities use them to estimate energy use.
Has Winter Haven been warmer than normal lately?
2025 averaged 75.0°F, 0.4°F above the 1991-2020 normal of 74.6°F. 4 of the 4 complete years since 2021 ran warmer than the normal.
| Year | Mean | Against normal | Precip. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 75.3°F | +0.7°F | 39.02 |
| 2023 | 75.4°F | +0.8°F | 46.40 |
| 2024 | 75.7°F | +1.1°F | 48.12 |
| 2025 | 75.0°F | +0.4°F | 31.98 |
Source: observed years: ACIS, station USW00012876. A year counts only with all twelve months complete.
How does Winter Haven's climate compare?
Winter Haven is warmer than 81 of the other 105 places with their own NOAA record in Florida, and wetter than 5. Across the 7,247 U.S. stations with normals, its annual mean of 74.6°F is warmer than 99%.
In the Köppen classification computed from these normals, Winter Haven is Cfa: temperate, no dry season, hot summer. What the classes mean.
Places with the most similar year elsewhere
Measured month by month on the normal high, low and precipitation, among places of 20,000 or more people in other states:
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 normals for every station PlainClimate covers. Similarity: the root-mean-square difference of the 36 monthly figures, precipitation weighted so an inch counts like 6°F.
Which places near Winter Haven share this climate record?
12 places have no NOAA station with 1991-2020 normals of their own, and this station is the nearest full record. A place's own climate can differ from these figures, by several degrees where it sits much higher or lower than the station, nearer the coast, or inside a large city's heat; for the larger places the next nearest records are named with their yearly mean, so the spread around them is visible, and places of 50,000 or more have their own page with NOAA's gridded normals.
- Haines City, FL42,073 people · 9 mi NE
- Auburndale, FL20,659 people · 4 mi NW
- Davenport, FL16,764 people · 11 mi NE
- Cypress Gardens, FL10,013 people · 6 mi SE
- Lake Alfred, FL8,632 people · 6 mi NE
- Inwood, FL7,098 people · 2 mi SW
- Jan Phyl Village, FL5,798 people · 4 mi SW
- Eagle Lake, FL5,576 people · 6 mi S
- Fussels Corner, FL5,113 people · 7 mi W
- Wahneta, FL4,464 people · 7 mi S
- Polk City, FL3,076 people · 9 mi NW
- Lake Hamilton, FL2,126 people · 8 mi E
Source: Census Bureau 2024 Gazetteer (place centers) and Vintage 2024 population estimates. Distance and direction from the station to each place's center.
What do Winter Haven's other NOAA stations record?
One more NOAA station keeps 1991-2020 normals in or near Winter Haven. This page uses Winter Haven Gilbert Airport; the other differs by site and elevation:
| Station | From this station | Elevation | Year | Jan low | Jul high | Precip. | Snow | Last frost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winter Haven station USC00089707 | 3 mi S | 145 ft | 74.2°F | 52°F | 93°F | 52.0 | 0 | January 16 |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 normals for each station. Last frost: the median last spring date of 32°F.
Questions about Winter Haven's climate
What is the coldest month in Winter Haven?
January, with a normal high of 73°F and a normal low of 52°F. The warmest is July (93°F by day, 75°F at night).
Does it snow in Winter Haven?
Rarely. NOAA publishes no 1991-2020 snowfall normal for Winter Haven's NOAA station; Winter Haven's own co-op station Winter Haven station records 0 inches of snow in a normal year.
What is the rainiest month in Winter Haven?
July, with 7.44 in of precipitation in a normal year; the driest is November with 1.45 in.
What plant hardiness zone is Winter Haven in?
The USDA's 2023 map puts Winter Haven in zone 10a across its 3 ZIP code areas (10a in 33881, the largest). By the same method at Winter Haven's NOAA station, the coldest night of a typical year reaches 32°F (20 years, 1991-2020): zone 10a.
Nearby and next
- Winter Haven in OctoberThis month day by day, its records and recent years
- Florida climateThe statewide normals and every place in the state
- Lake Wales, FL13 miles from this station, 73.9°F a year
- Bartow, FL13 miles from this station, 73.1°F a year
- Lakeland, FL17 miles from this station, 73.9°F a year
- Plant City, FL24 miles from this station, 74.3°F a year
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